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Mondale and his advisers soon dropped the whole idea of selecting a candidate on the traditional basis of ticket-balancing geography. He needed much more than a Vice President who could deliver the electoral votes of a home state. When a Gallup poll showed Reagan 19 points ahead, the impulse to go for broke was reinforced. Jim Johnson held several senior staff meetings in Washington the weekend of June 27-28. All the participants either were eager to see a woman selected or were open-minded...
...idea of progress as romantic and naive, a comforting illusion. The recent history of women argues otherwise, and the improvement can practically be graphed. In 1937, only a third of Americans said they would be willing to consider voting for a female candidate for President, according to a Gallup poll. By 1969, just over half said they would consider it. Last year the figure had risen to 80%. And this week the Democrats are nominating a woman for Vice President. In the struggle for equal opportunities, this is what is meant by progress. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Barbara...
Worst of all, perhaps, the latest polls show Mondale badly losing ground with the voters while attempting to steer between these minefields. Gallup now finds the former Vice President running 19 points behind Reagan, a gap more than twice as wide as the one that existed a month ago, when Mondale became the all but official Democratic nominee. A New York Times/CBS News poll puts the current Reagan lead at 15 points. Surveys this early in the campaign are no reliable guide to the outcome in November, but senior Democratic leaders are concerned. The polls, says one, "mean that since...
...Britain has received for highway improvement, job-training programs and aid to depressed areas. The opposition Labor Party, in its 1983 general election manifesto, pledged to pull Britain out of the Community. Many Britons have made it a scape goat for the country's economic ills: a recent Gallup poll showed that only 33% of Britons consider membership "a good thing." Nevertheless, domestic politics had much to do with why Thatcher changed her stand. Her handling of the 17-week-old coal miners' strike, which has produced violence on a scale rarely seen in Britain, has contributed...
According to a new Gallup poll, 59% of Democrats want a Mondale-Hart ticket, compared with only 27% who prefer Mondale with an other running mate. The same poll was bad news for the Hart advisers who still hope to draw delegates away from Mondale by arguing that the Senator would run a stronger race against Reagan. It showed the President ahead of Mondale, 53% to 44%, and leading Hart by virtually the same margin...